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COUNT ADRIEN ALBERT MARIE DE MUN (184...

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 1 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT ADRIEN See also:ALBERT See also:MARIE DE See also:MUN (1841— )  , See also:French politician, was See also:born at Lumigny, in the See also:department of See also:Seine-et-See also:Marne, on the 28th of See also:February 1841 . He entered the See also:army, saw much service in See also:Algeria (1862), and took See also:part in the fighting around See also:Metz in 187o . On the surrender of Metz, he was sent as a prisoner of See also:war to See also:Aix-la-Chapelle, whence he returned in See also:time to assist at the See also:capture of See also:Paris from the See also:Commune . A fervent See also:Roman See also:Catholic, he devoted himself to advocating a See also:patriarch type bf See also:Christian See also:Socialism . His eloquence made him the most prominent member of the Cercles Catholiques d'Ouvriers, and his attacks on Republican social policy at last evoked a See also:prohibition from the See also:minister of war . He thereupon resigned his See also:commission (Nov . 1895), and in the following February stood as Royalist and Catholic See also:candidate for See also:Pontivy . The See also:influence of the See also:Church was exerted to secure his See also:election, and the See also:pope during its progress sent him the See also:order of St See also:Gregory . He was returned, but the election was declared invalid . He was re-elected, however, in the following See also:August, and for many years was the most conspicuous See also:leader of the See also:anti-Republican party . " We See also:form," he said on one occasion, " the irreconcilable See also:Counter-Revolution." As far back as 1878 he had declared himself opposed to universal See also:suffrage, a See also:declaration that lost him his seat from 1879 to 1881 . He spoke strongly against the See also:expulsion of the French princes, and it was chiefly through his influence that the support of the Royalist party was given to See also:General See also:Boulanger .

But as a faithful Catholic he obeyed the encyclical of 1892, and declared his readiness to rally to a Republican See also:

government, provided that it respected See also:religion . In the following See also:January he received from the pope a See also:letter commending his See also:action, and encouraging him in his social reforms . He was defeated at the general election of that See also:year, but in 1894 was returned for See also:Finistere (See also:Morlaix) . In 1897 he succeeded Jules See also:Simon as a member of the French See also:Academy . This See also:honour he owed to the purity of See also:style and remarkable eloquence of his speeches, which, with a few See also:pamphlets, form the bulk of his published See also:work . In Ma vocation sociale (1908) he wrote an explanation and See also:justification of his career .

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